RE: [xsl] no output files

[Tony Nassar <tnassar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is it possible to direct the output to /dev/null or, on Windows, NUL? The
latter works for me (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_sink).

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 8:57 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xsl] no output files

There will always be at least one result tree, but its contents may be
empty. see 2.4:

<quote>
An implicit result tree is also created when the result sequence is empty,
provided that no xsl:result-document  instruction has been evaluated during
the course of the transformation. In this situation the implicit result tree
will consist of a document node with no children.
</quote>

But you don't have to serialize the result tree to a file. Try <xsl:output
method="saxon:net.sf.saxon.event.Sink"/>